Arbeitspapier

Inequality of earnings

This Paper surveys major empirical regularities concerning changes in earnings inequality in Europe and the US over the past 25 years. Next, it indicates which of these regularities can be explained within the competitive demand–supply framework of analysis and what is left unexplained. Finally, it considers the implications of organizational change as a possible rationale for recent inequality developments.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: CEPR Discussion Paper Series ; No. 2321

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Organizational Behavior; Transaction Costs; Property Rights
Production; Cost; Capital; Capital, Total Factor, and Multifactor Productivity; Capacity
Personal Income, Wealth, and Their Distributions
Factor Income Distribution
Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement
Thema
income distribution
earnings
wage rigidities
skilled and unskilled workers
education
globalization
technological change
organizational change
labour supply
minimum wage
unionization
inequality
Einkommensverteilung
Organisatorischer Wandel
Vergleich
USA
EU-Staaten

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Snower, Dennis J.
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR)
(wo)
London
(wann)
1999

Handle
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Snower, Dennis J.
  • Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR)

Entstanden

  • 1999

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